With only a few months until release, Slightly Mad Studios have released a new trailer for their upcoming racing game, Project Cars. Let us know if you’ll be grabbing this one in the comments section below.

Activision released a new trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that dips into the single player campaign, multiplayer, and the Exo Survival co-op mode. The Exo Survival co-op mode makes its debut in the trailer and shows off the 4 player mode in the last third of the trailer.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is due for release on November 4th for the PS3 and PS4.

Today during their 2014 E3 Press Conference a release date was finally announced for The Crew. Set to release on November 11, 2o14, The Crew is a cross country racing game that encourages the creation of a crew to help complete missions and objectives.

Haven’t seen The Crew yet? Check out the trailer below:

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Today on the PlayStation blogAssassins Creed Liberation HD was given a release date of January 14, 2014. Along with porting the game from Vita to PS3 more features for the game have been announced. Full news post below

Greetings, PlayStation Assassins! We’re very excited to announce that Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD will be coming to PS3 via PlayStation Store on January 14th.

When we set out to do Liberation HD, our objective was simple: improve upon what worked on the Vita and adapt the gameplay and missions to be the most fun and enjoyable they could be. As a result, each mission has been reworked in order to improve its pacing, and the challenge it poses to the player.

Liberation is set in New Orleans between 1765 and 1780, in the period between the end of the French and Indian War, up to the middle of the American Revolution. Liberation tells the story of Aveline; a female Assassin of mixed French and African heritage. Brought up in a world of privilege and contrasts, Aveline becomes a strong-willed woman and an avid opponent of slavery.

Recruited to the Assassins by an escaped slave, Aveline joins the struggle against the Templars as they try to take control of New Orleans following France’s handover of the city to Spain. Striking hard and fast, she is instrumental in the Louisiana Rebellion that forces the Spanish and Templars out of the city for nearly two years before they return in force.

In addition to the HD upgrade, we also have new missions specific to Aveline’s Personas. Aveline is the first Assassin with such clearly different character types — Assassin, Lady, and Servant. Each persona has its own advantages and disadvantages when playing missions, and each generates a different reaction from the city life around Aveline. That’s a total of 15 missions delving deeper into Aveline’s story.

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If you haven’t had a chance to play this chapter of Assassin’s Creed on Vita, or simply want to play Liberation on the big screen, we hope you’ll check out Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD on January 14th for $19.99.

Interested in learning more about the new Squads mode in Call of Duty: Ghosts? Check out the trailer below for a brief description of the mode and what you will be able to do it in.

Squads introduces a whole new level of competition to Call of Duty: Ghosts. Combining the unrivaled Multiplayer experience with cutting edge AI, Squads lets you play a variety of new game modes with your customized squad-mates. Play solo against another player and their squad, or cooperatively with friends, competing versus an AI-controlled squad. Best of all, the XP earned in Squads is directly connected to your Multiplayer progress!

I was able to get a little hands-on time with Bandfuse: Rock Legends this last weekend at PAX 2013. Bandfuse is a new music game in the genre of “real” music games. Using a real guitar and bass to play music using a USB to ¼’ adapter to plug into the console, if you are familiar with Rocksmith than you get the picture.

The first song I tried out was Rebel Yell by Billy Idol on bass, since the guitar was being occupied at the other station. As the songs starts you get an image similar to the one below, with the music video of the song playing in the middle and the guitar tab at the bottom of the screen. Vocals will be displayed at the top of screen in something similar to Rock Band. The tabulator section uses similar colors that you would expect from a guitar hero controller to make it easier to remember what finger you should use.

Playing and reading the tabulator layout is easy to pick up, on the medium level and the fact that I’ve played guitar for 17 years probably didn’t hurt. What I noticed most about playing was how close they got the tone of the bass to match the song, and this helped with giving you the feeling of being part of the band. I next switched to guitar on the next song, and what I noticed during this is that at all times the guitar or bass is active and you can play and jam throughout the menu system. I was told that the game consists of pretty much no background music while you’re in the menu system, and I didn’t notice any while playing the game shuffling through menus.

I played through my song of choice on guitar and it played as easily as bass, especially in the sound department where the guitar tone again sounded exactly like the song and artist. Bandfuse does a great job of getting rid of any lag when playing, and during my play time noticed zero lag between when the pick hit the strings, and the sound hit my ears.

The menu system its self is smooth and quick with minimal load times when you finally select a song, something that was excruciating with Rocksmith. The ability to get to a song and play is what’s key in a game like this.

Bandfuse offers up to four players in local co-op allowing two guitars, bass, and vocals. Unfortunately do to lag issues online co-op is not available, but hey they have leaderboards for your shredding competition. Also included is Shred U where you can slow down sections of songs to learn them at your own pace with a good amount of options on what you want to practice and how.Bandfuse: Rock Legends is what the game is really about with artist like Slash, Bootsy Collins, Zakk Wylde, and more teaching you the ways of the axe. Starting with basics of guitar anatomy and leading into showing you how to play certain styles of guitar.

Bandfuse: Rock Legends aims to teach you how to play an actual instrument and even though it is not the first of this type of game to do so, it looks to be on track to teach you how to rock. Bandfuse: Rock Legends is scheduled for release November 19th for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Beyond: Two Souls will have a demo available on October 1st in North America and on October 2nd across Europe. The demo will feature two sections of the final game:

Jodie & Aiden: Join a very young Jodie as she takes part in an experiment at the Department of Paranormal Activities. As officials put her abilities to the test, you take charge of a mysterious, invisible entity.

Hunted: Skip forward a number of years and help Jodie escape the clutches of government agents as the mysterious entity unleashes its truly astonishing powers.

Also included with this news is the latest video in the “Making of” series that Quantic Dream have been releasing over the past couple of months. In this video we get a look into the process of their performance capture and set and visual design.

KickBeat, the latest title from the fantastic Zen Studios, has been given a release date of September 3rd.

Announced last year as a PlayStation Vita exclusive, the game will now be available on cross-buy for PS3 and Vita; meaning one purchase will grant you a download on both platforms.

Zen’s VP, Mel Kirk, had this to say on the decision to go cross-platform and explained what KickBeat is all about:

“We heard from so many players, asking for the game on PS3 so we put our heads down, guzzled gallons of energy drinks and just made it happen! Best of all, the game will be Cross Buy, so buy it once and enjoy it on both screens at no additional charge.

KickBeat is an award-winning music title with a hard hitting soundtrack offering players several innovative ways to interact with music. Beat-matching mechanics come to life in this kung-fu style music fighter, featuring licensed tracks from a diverse lineup of artists. KickBeat offers unlimited replayability with an in-game track generator, allowing players to use their own music to create new KickBeat tracks. Experiment with different types of music to create custom KickBeat tracks and fight to the beats that drive you!”

Check out the trailer below, and stay tuned to PSNation for any more info before KickBeat’s release next month.

Lightning Returns, the newest installment in the Final Fantasy XIII franchise has finally received release dates for North America and Europe.

Lightning Returns will be available at retail and on PSN for $59.99 on February 11th 2014. As for Europe the game will release a few days later on February 14th.

If you are in Japan the game will release on November 21st and will have an “Ultimate Box” edition for ¥26,000 that features all 3 Final Fantasy XIII games, a collection of songs from each game’s soundtracks, an art book, and Lightning figurine. (Nova Crystallis)